UNNAMED VATICAN SOURCE TO US EMBASSY OFFICER OVER DRINKS: POPE JOHN XXIII WAS "ELECTED' OUTSIDE CONCLAVE BY AGREEMENT BETWEEN CARDINALS


From: Rome

To: Secretary of State

No: 1166, October 11, 2PM

Limited Distribution.

DURING CONVERSATION WITH EMBASSY OFFICER, VATICAN SOURCE EXPRESSED PERSONAL VIEW NEXT POPE WILL BE "ELECTED' OUTSIDE CONCLAVE BY AGREEMENT BETWEEN CARDINALS. SOURCE SAID PIUS XII ELECTED THIS MANNER AND RECALLED THAT AS CARDINALS WERE ENTERING 1939 CONCLAVE CARD FIZZARDO HAD CALLED HIM ASIDE AND ASKED HIM TO PREPARE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PACELLI. ADDED HE CONSULTED WITH MSGR. MONTINI AND BOTH DECIDED FOR OBVIOUS REASONS NOT TO GO AHEAD WITH PIZZARDO'S REQUEST.

SPECULATING ON PIUS XII'S SUCCESSOR SOURCE SAID COLLEGE MAY VERY WELL CHOOSE AN OLD CARDINAL WHOSE SHORT PONTIFICATE MAY BE DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE ROMAN CURIA LEFT BY DECEASED POPE IN "DEPLORABLE STATE." SOURCE INDICATED ELECTION OF SIRI, RUFFINI, OTTAVIANI WOULD BE "MISFORTUNE FOR THE CHURCH'" SINCE THESE THREE CARDINALS HAVE AN UNREALISTIC APPROACH TO GREAT PROBLEMS FACING WORLD TODAY. SOURCE SAID ELECTION OF ANYONE OF THREE COULD DEPEND ON INFLUENCE OF AMERICAN CARDINAL SAND VOLUNTEERED SUGGESTION U.S. AUTHORITIES WOULD DO WELL EXERCISE DISCREETLY "THEIR OWN INFLUENCE ON CERTAIN AMERICAN CARDINALS."

ZELLERBACH

Wow....unnamed Vatican source says....

Comments

  1. Hmm, if Pius XII was elected that way, then is he also an Anti-Pope?

    Or do the Rad Mad Trads give him a pass, as they do to: Trump, MILO, Dreher, Roy Moore, Dinesh D'Souza, Antonin "Abortion is the Law of the Land" Scalia, Neil "My Pastor is a Woman" Gorsuch, and E. Michael Jones?

    Idiots.

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    1. He wasn"t ....It says in article for obvious reasons they decided not to go along with Pizzardos request...I thought the same thing at first reading...

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  2. Gotta love these "unnamed Vatican sources". Lol

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